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Dating site singles out Swedish prince as 'most beautiful' royal

Society: 19 Apr 11
Sweden's Prince Carl Philip has been named at the head of list of "the top ten most beautiful royal men", while his sister Madeleine had to settle for seventh on the female equivalent. READ »

Water shortages to force Middle East cooperation

Politics: 11 Feb 11
A report jointly funded by the Swedish and Swiss governments warned on Thursday of acute water shortages in the Middle East that would force feuding neighbours in the region to cooperate to address them. READ »

More Swedish embassies set for closure: report

Politics: 27 Jan 11
A slew of Swedish embassies and consulates could be closed as the foreign ministry prepares to cut costs after having its budget reduced, according to a media report. READ »

Warplane sales 'destabilising': Swedish think tank

Science & Technology: 10 Nov 10
Stockholm independent research institute SIPRI has warned that combat aircraft sales, which account for a third of the global arms trade, could have a destabilising effect in many parts of the world. READ »

'Thank you for giving me my Prince'

National: 19 Jun 10
Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria has got her Prince. In front of a crowd of thousands outside Stockholm’s Royal Palace following her marriage to Daniel Westling, she thanked the Swedish people for letting her marry the man she loves. READ »

Crowds gather along procession route

Society: 19 Jun 10
Police expect some 250,000 people to take to the streets to catch a glimpse of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling when they leave Stockholm Cathedral in a carriage procession after their wedding on Saturday afternoon. READ »

Swedes falling out of love with monarchy

Society: 19 Jun 10
Support for Sweden's monarchy has dipped below 50 percent while a quarter if the population is opposed to the institution, according to a poll published a day before Crown Princess Victoria's wedding. READ »

Roxette star among wedding guests

National: 17 Jun 10
Roxette’s Per Gessle, Eurovision contestant Malena Ernman and businesswoman Cristina Stenbeck: the great, the good and the celebrated of Sweden will be out in force at Saturday's royal wedding. READ »

Big royal turnout expected for wedding

National: 16 Jun 10
Sweden’s royal wedding is set to attract one of largest gathering of kings and queens seen in Europe for years, a guest list for Friday’s pre-wedding concert has revealed. READ »

Stockholm photography museum thrills Leibovitz

Lifestyle: 21 May 10
A new museum on Stockholm's waterfront has created a buzz in the art world. Claire Hardman found Annie Leibovitz, the world's most revered photographer, was among those won over. READ »

Bergström and Prince Charles invited to royal wedding pre-party

Society: 30 Apr 10
Two unexpected names have cropped up on the invitation list to the official pre-party for Crown Princess Victoria's wedding: Jonas Bergström, Princess Madeleine's former fiancé, and Emma Pernald, who dated Prince Carl Philip until a year ago. READ »

Sweden shifts priorities for resettling UN refugees

National: 21 Jan 10
Sweden plans to give priority to refugees from Somalia and Eritrea, rather than Iraq, in its efforts to resettle an estimated 1,700 to 1,900 United Nations (UN) refugees this year. READ »

Organ theft article 'a perversion of journalistic standards'

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Oct 09
Amid an ongoing uproar over accusations that Israel harvested the organs of dead Palestinians, media watcher Andrea Levin issues a fresh plea to Aftonbladet to correct "the factual errors that litter the article". READ »

Still no charges for US-held Swede in Iraq

National: 14 May 09
Sweden’s foreign ministry is still waiting for details about the charges against a 40-year-old Swedish citizen who has been held by American authorities in Iraq for nearly one year. READ »

Swede caught in Somali pirate attack

National: 26 Apr 09
A Swedish man was caught up in an attack by Somali pirates on Saturday. The pirates attacked an Italian cruise ship outside of Somalia's coast but were repelled. READ »

'Anti-Semitism on the rise in Sweden'

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Feb 09
An ugly wave of anti-Semitism is on the rise in Sweden, and politicians who compare Israel with Nazi Germany or apartheid-era South Africa cannot claim to be free of responsibility, writes David Stavrou, a freelance Israeli journalist based in Sweden. READ »

New evacuation planned for Gaza Swedes

Politics: 11 Jan 09
The first Swedish evacuees arrived home from war-torn Gaza on Saturday. The foreign ministry is now hopeful that more of the remaining 46 Swedes will be helped to flee the area next week. READ »

Swedes headed home following Gaza escape

Politics: 9 Jan 09
Twelve Swedes who managed to get out of Gaza are now in the Jordanian capital of Amman and will be headed back to Sweden on Friday evening. READ »

Tension following removal of Malmö mosque activists

National: 15 Dec 08
Tempers flared in Malmö on Monday morning as riot police used dogs to clear three protesters out of a basement office which has served as a mosque for more than a 15 years, but had been ordered closed back on November 24th. READ »

SAD: You can beat the winter blues

Analysis & Opinion: 24 Oct 08
In a country famed for its long winter days, the impending darkness is a source of widespread grumbling. However, for some inhabitants, the short daylight hours are a cause for serious concern, as Jennifer Heape investigates. READ »

Stockholm art gallery guide: July 4 - 10

Lifestyle: 3 Jul 08
Stockholm art gallery and exhibition tips from Kalendarium. READ »

Stockholm art gallery guide: June 13 - 19

Lifestyle: 12 Jun 08
Stockholm art gallery and exhibition tips from Kalendarium. READ »

Sweden to reopen Baghdad embassy

Politics: 30 May 08
As Sweden announced plans to reopen its Baghdad embassy later this year, Iraq's prime minister also called for Iraqi refugees to return to their former homeland. READ »

Delegates discuss debt and diplomacy

Politics: 29 May 08
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday backed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s appeal for his country's debts to be cancelled while addressing a global conference in Sweden. READ »

Rice urges world to speed aid to Iraq

Politics: 29 May 08
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged the world community ahead of an international conference in Sweden to seize on improved security to accelerate aid to Iraq. READ »

Bildt seeks to expand Middle East cooperation

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Apr 08
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's recent visit to the Middle East marks a possible shift in Sweden’s traditionally cautious, “two-steps forward, one-step back” approach to Middle Eastern conflicts, writes Rami Abdelrahman. READ »

The path to Swedish asylum: A smuggler speaks

Lifestyle: 19 Mar 08
Rami Abdelrahman travels to Jordan and tracks down the first link in the chain of an underground operation involved in the smuggling of Iraqi refugees to Sweden. READ »

Iraqi kids learn Swedish way of life

Lifestyle: 17 Feb 08
AFP's Sophie Mongalvy pays a visit to a school in Södertälje where transition classes have been set up to help ease Iraqi kids into the Swedish way of life. READ »

Ericsson takes down flags in Middle East

National: 16 Sep 07
Telecoms giant Ericsson has taken steps to reduce its visibility in the Middle East following Saturday's threat by al-Qaeda in Iraq to target major Swedish companies. READ »

Sweden denies apologizing over cartoon row

National: 12 Sep 07
Sweden has denied claims by the Organization of the Islamic Conference that a diplomat apologized for the controversy over the publication in Sweden of a cartoon depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad as a dog. READ »

Muhammad cartoons: Jordan condemns publication

Society: 3 Sep 07
Jordan condemned on Monday the publication in Sweden of a cartoon of Islam's prophet, warning it could undermine inter-faith dialogue and co-existence. The Managing Editor of the Jordan Times tells The Local that many Jordanians are angry about the cartoon. READ »

Iraqi man appeals deportation precedent

Society: 24 Jul 07
An Iraqi man who had his asylum application rejected on the grounds that there is 'no armed conflict' in his country has lodged an appeal. READ »

Eriksson takes helm at Manchester City

Sport: 6 Jul 07
After a long period of speculation, Sven-Göran Eriksson has finally been confirmed as the new manager of Manchester City. READ »

Eriksson prepares Manchester City shopping spree

Sport: 5 Jul 07
Sven-Göran Eriksson will announce his arrival as Manchester City manager by making sweeping changes to the Premiership club's squad. READ »

Climate change tops agenda at global forest meet

Science & Technology: 1 Jul 07
Heads of state, politicians, scientists, business leaders and aid workers have all been congregating in a Swedish forest to discuss ways of tackling climate change. READ »

Belly dancing and hummus - Swedes fall for Lebanese

Lifestyle: 14 Jun 07
The war that tore through Lebanon in the 1980s brought 15,000 Lebanese to Sweden. One result of this is that Swedes are becoming connoisseurs of Middle Eastern cooking – and belly dancing – as Rami Abdelrahman reports. READ »

Amnesty criticizes Baghdad deportation

Society: 18 May 07
Amnesty International has levelled criticism at Sweden following the forced deportation to Baghdad of an Iraqi citizen. READ »

Iraqis bring wealth - and jobs - to Sweden

Lifestyle: 12 Apr 07
The world in Sweden series:The cost to Sweden of receiving asylum seekers – many of them Iraqis – is set to rise to more than 12 billion kronor by 2010. But far from being a drain on resources, many Iraqis are bringing money - and jobs - to Sweden, as Rami Abdelrahman reports. READ »

Sweden hands over Jordanian suspected of terror links

National: 5 Apr 07
Sweden has handed over a Jordanian terror suspect to German authorities. The man suspecting of plotting to create an Al-Qaeda cell in Sudan. READ »

Victoria expresses peace hopes in Jordan

National: 30 Mar 07
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria has expressed her interest and Sweden's support for a peace offer by Arab nations to Israel, while on a visit to Jordan as part of her foreign ministry training. READ »

Sweden to extradite Moroccan terror suspect to Germany

National: 29 Mar 07
A Moroccan man suspected of plotting terrorist attacks has been arrested and will be extradited to Germany, where a warrant had been issued for his arrest. The same fate awaits a Jordanian national. READ »

Terror suspect 'will be tortured' if deported

National: 22 Feb 07
A terror suspect who says he could be tortured if sent back to Jordan is embarking a last-ditch attempt to stay in Sweden. Hassan Assad tells The Local he has no links with terrorist groups, and has simply given aid to refugees. READ »

Iraqis look to Sweden as safe haven

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Dec 06
The increasingly volatile situation in Iraq is prompting a growing number of Iraqis to seek a safe haven in Europe. A generous refugee policy means that Sweden is proving particularly attractive. READ »

Henke's homecoming: the return of the King

Lifestyle: 13 Jul 06
Sweden has provided the world with countless sporting overachievers, but Henrik Larsson has captured the nation's imagination. And his return to Sweden is seeing him feted like a king, reports Eddie de Oliveira. READ »

Iranian refugees accepted by Sweden

Society: 17 May 06
Over a hundred Iranian Kurd refugees who fled Iran during the Islamic Revolution, then left Iraq during the war, are now on their way to Sweden from their desert camp in Jordan. READ »

Birthday service as Carl Gustaf turns 60

National: 30 Apr 06
12 million kronor to King's new charity
The weekend's birthday celebrations continued with a morning service in the palace chapel - time for the king to reflect on the countless gifts, donations and events in his honour - and a horsedrawn trip to banquet at Stockholm City Hall. READ »

Swedes killed in Baghdad bombs

National: 8 Apr 06
Two Swedes were among 80 people killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Friday. The pair are reported to be a man and his six-year old son, from the Stockholm area. READ »

Swedish Muslims to be 'ambassadors'

Society: 9 Mar 06
Sweden is to send three young Swedish Muslims to the Middle East to counteract the impression that the country is anti-Islamic. There is a need to exchange experiences, says Laila Freivalds. READ »

Arla closes Saudi factory after boycotts

Business & Money: 31 Jan 06
Swedish-Danish dairy giant Arla Foods has suspended production in Saudi Arabia following widespread boycotts of Danish products in Muslim countries. Anger is focused on a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper. READ »

Sweden is not immune to terror - Persson

Politics: 11 Nov 05
Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson says that Sweden should not consider itself immune to terrorist attacks like those which struck Jordan this week. READ »

Swedish king says action needed on climate change

National: 31 Jul 05
Global warming threatens the survival of future generations, King Carl Gustaf has told a meeting of world leaders in Sweden. "We need to listen to mother earth" the monarch says. READ »

World worthies gather in Sweden to debate global issues

Politics: 29 Jul 05
Where better to solve the world's problems than the picturesque lakeside town of Tällberg, 270km north of Stockholm? That's where 450 politicians, artists and business leaders from around the world are gathering to discuss today's big issues. READ »

Royals and Persson at Pope?s funeral

National: 8 Apr 05
As John Paul II is buried in Rome, Swedish leaders are on hand to pay their respects. Göran Persson said that, despite their differences, he saw the late pontiff as a “great religious leader”. READ »

Suspected terrorists accused in Stockholm

National: 5 Apr 05
Two Iraqi men go on trial in the capital on Thursday, accused of leading a terrorist cell from Sweden. Prosecutors say they directed suicide attacks against Kurdish targets in Iraq. READ »

Norwegian prime minister slams IKEA

National: 10 Mar 05
Norway's PM Kjell Magne Bondevik joins millions of IKEA customers the world over and curses the furniture giant's assembly instructions. But it's not a lack of tools that bothers him, it's a lack of women. READ »

Police Academy - Iraqi style

National: 18 Jul 04
GP were on hand to welcome home Gothenburg policeman, Håkan Svedberg, from Jordan. Svedberg was one of ten Swedish officers who'd spent six months there training Iraqi police. READ »

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

How far can English take you in Sweden?

Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »

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